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Moira Stuart - Dropped?

(March 2007)

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IT
itsrobert Founding member
Showbizguru posted:
Why ?
All she did for 30 years - with the occasional exception such as HIGNFY - was read an autocue.
She was reasonably okay but had the personality of a doorbell.
Presumably her bosses at the Beeb realised that which is why they gave her very little else to do.
Anna Ford - there's another highly-paid muppet whose departure no-one has missed.
Personally I'd put the pair of them in a canoe with that talentless Welsh git Hugh Edwards and drop them off somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.


Tell you what, then. You work for one company for 30 loyal years then get the boot with no recognition. See how you feel...
DA
David
itsrobert posted:
Showbizguru posted:
Why ?
All she did for 30 years - with the occasional exception such as HIGNFY - was read an autocue.
She was reasonably okay but had the personality of a doorbell.
Presumably her bosses at the Beeb realised that which is why they gave her very little else to do.
Anna Ford - there's another highly-paid muppet whose departure no-one has missed.
Personally I'd put the pair of them in a canoe with that talentless Welsh git Hugh Edwards and drop them off somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.


Tell you what, then. You work for one company for 30 loyal years then get the boot with no recognition. See how you feel...


What? She didn't get paid?

She has probably been paid since March too. Nice work if you can get it.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
davidlees posted:
itsrobert posted:
Showbizguru posted:
Why ?
All she did for 30 years - with the occasional exception such as HIGNFY - was read an autocue.
She was reasonably okay but had the personality of a doorbell.
Presumably her bosses at the Beeb realised that which is why they gave her very little else to do.
Anna Ford - there's another highly-paid muppet whose departure no-one has missed.
Personally I'd put the pair of them in a canoe with that talentless Welsh git Hugh Edwards and drop them off somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.


Tell you what, then. You work for one company for 30 loyal years then get the boot with no recognition. See how you feel...


What? She didn't get paid?

She has probably been paid since March too. Nice work if you can get it.


For God's sake, stop being so picky. All I'm saying is that it would have been nice for the BBC to publicly recognise the three decades of hard work and commitment that Moira's put into making the Corporation what it is today. Is that so wrong? Why am I made out to be the bad guy here?
ST
STV Today
itsrobert posted:
davidlees posted:
itsrobert posted:
Showbizguru posted:
Why ?
All she did for 30 years - with the occasional exception such as HIGNFY - was read an autocue.
She was reasonably okay but had the personality of a doorbell.
Presumably her bosses at the Beeb realised that which is why they gave her very little else to do.
Anna Ford - there's another highly-paid muppet whose departure no-one has missed.
Personally I'd put the pair of them in a canoe with that talentless Welsh git Hugh Edwards and drop them off somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.


Tell you what, then. You work for one company for 30 loyal years then get the boot with no recognition. See how you feel...


What? She didn't get paid?

She has probably been paid since March too. Nice work if you can get it.


For God's sake, stop being so picky. All I'm saying is that it would have been nice for the BBC to publicly recognise the three decades of hard work and commitment that Moira's put into making the Corporation what it is today. Is that so wrong? Why am I made out to be the bad guy here?


OK I am bias - but I think that after 30 years service whether it be emptying buckets or reading an autocue with folk screaming in your ear and being told to drop this story add that story, be cool when everything around goes tits up (being a newsreader is not walk in the park) she did deserve a decent send off - indeed better exit from the BBC. Moira Stuart is a household name how many BBC employees past and present are?
MO
Moz
itsrobert posted:
Tell you what, then. You work for one company for 30 loyal years then get the boot with no recognition. See how you feel...


Lots of people work loyally for 30 years without their departure featuring on the news. She deserved internal recognition, nothing more.

Anyway loyalty could equal lack of ambition. Is 30 years doing nothing but reading an autocue a sparkling career? No, its lazy that she didn't want to push herself further. Why didn't she do a journalism course and get her hands dirty out in the field at least once rather than sitting safe in a studio while everyone around her had earned their place behind the desk?
NE
Newsroom
Moz posted:
itsrobert posted:
Tell you what, then. You work for one company for 30 loyal years then get the boot with no recognition. See how you feel...


Lots of people work loyally for 30 years without their departure featuring on the news. She deserved internal recognition, nothing more.

Anyway loyalty could equal lack of ambition. Is 30 years doing nothing but reading an autocue a sparkling career? No, its lazy that she didn't want to push herself further. Why didn't she do a journalism course and get her hands dirty out in the field at least once rather than sitting safe in a studio while everyone around her had earned their place behind the desk?


What planet are you on Moz? You lack respect, shame on you.

The woman was a great achiever, worked hard and enjoyed a ditinguished career with the BBC. She should have been given a better send off. Shame on the BBC for this.
HO
House
OOOOHHH!!! 6 mentioned Moira had chosen to leave, how great she was and that she would be missed; while Entertainment 24 said about how she had been in the middle of an agism row! I wonder if Entertainment 24 weren't told that they shouldn't give the facts about Moira like the six/ bbc press...
MO
Moz
Newsroom posted:
The woman was a great achiever, worked hard and enjoyed a ditinguished career with the BBC.

You can't make a claim like that without evidence. Why was she a great achiever?
HO
House
Moz posted:
Newsroom posted:
The woman was a great achiever, worked hard and enjoyed a ditinguished career with the BBC.

You can't make a claim like that without evidence. Why was she a great achiever?
Well she was bloody better than kaplinsky or silverton...

yeh she mite not hav campaigned or anything but she was good at her job and that's what she should be remembered by...
KE
kernow
imnogoth posted:
OOOOHHH!!! 6 mentioned Moira had chosen to leave, how great she was and that she would be missed; while Entertainment 24 said about how she had been in the middle of an agism row! I wonder if Entertainment 24 weren't told that they shouldn't give the facts about Moira like the six/ bbc press...


When they mentioned her departure, they also said that she had presented every BBC TV News bulletin. Is this true? I thought that she had presented all the bulletins except the 10.

It was only a very brief mention of her departure, although she deserved a bit more than this. When Anna Ford left last year, there was a special clip montage at the end of her final bulletin. Moira deserved something like this, although maybe they couldn't because of the short notice.

Also, I don't know if this was mentioned before, but I've just found this report about Anna Ford attacking the BBC for ageism:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/28/nbeeb128.xml
NE
Newsroom
Moz posted:
Newsroom posted:
The woman was a great achiever, worked hard and enjoyed a ditinguished career with the BBC.

You can't make a claim like that without evidence. Why was she a great achiever?


Moz - you are vying for an argument, which you are not going to get.

This took me 10 secs to locate: (From wiki)

1988 voted "Best Newscaster of the Year" (1988) by the TV and Radio Industries Club Awards
1989 voted "Best Television Personality" by the Women of Achievement Awards
1994 named "Best Female Television Personality" by the Black Journalists' Association
1997 named "Best Media Personality" by The Voice newspaper
2001 awarded as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting in the Queen's Birthday Honours[9]
2006 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh[10], the University where her grandparents met.[8]
ST
STV Today
She was and still is an influencial woman and role model.

Many women, like myself, admire Moira for being a polished professional who encouraged many other woman to try their luck in a TV newsroom, which was at the time, predominantly a man's world.

Female presenters, such as Angela Rippon - even Anna Ford - did not advertise this as well as Moira. She also has encouraged many black women to reach for the stars.

She is seen as bubbly, cheery and does not take herself too seriously unlike many ego maniacs in today's TV newsrooms.

Moira also kept herself private - which is commendable and something of a rarity in today's mish mash of whether you are a journalist or a celebrity.

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